Showcase: The Most Innovative Textiles Available Today
The most innovative textiles—in material, construction, performance, and aesthetics—available today.
Author: Site Staff
An Imaginary, Abandoned (And Filthy) Saint-Firminy
Brussels-based artist Xavier Delory has completed the last in his series of fanciful visualizations: "Pilgrimage Along Modernity."
A Tale of Two Cities: The Year Jane Jacobs and Le Corbusier Discovered New York City
In 1935 both Le Corbusier and a young Jane Jacobs discovered New York City for the first time.
Products - Tectura Designs
Tectura Designs
Susan S. Szenasy and Phil Bernstein on What Technology Can and Can't Do
A recap of Metropolis editor in chief Susan S. Szenasy and Phil Bernstein of Autodesk's conversation on how technology is changing the boundaries between designing and making.
Products - FLORIM
Florim’s porcelain is a material with high technical and aesthetic components. The porcelain is made by blending raw natural materials together, which, thanks also to the contemporary technologies of high-definition digital printing, can truthfully reproduce all kinds of surfaces and materials. The production process of the porcelain uses mechanical manufacturing techniques, and physical / chemical reactions – where Florim’s know-how is the essential piece of the complicated puzzle in producing the super high quality product.
How Do We Create Healing Spaces?
We see how living patterns are signs of healthy design solutions in this series of articles about the influence of patterns on living structures.
Common Boston Launches Latest Build
The program kicks off its sixth Common Build competition this weekend.
Formica Forever
Formica Forever Text by Alexandra Lange, Phil Patton, Peter York Foreword by Mark Adamson Formica® is 100 years old! To celebrate this centennial, Formica Corporation has published Formica Forever. The book takes us on a lively, information-packed walk through the…
Cape Cod Modern
Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape
Update: What Can Hadid Gain from Her Lawsuit against the NYRB?
The architect filed a suit against the respected publication last week. Can she win?
Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism
Click here and here for excerpts from the book (PDF files). Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford Foreword by Thomas Fisher Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the…
Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
A project by Fritz Haeg — now in an expanded second edition
Szenasy, Design Advocate: A Collection of Susan Szenasy's Writings
Writings and Talks by Metropolis Magazine Editor Susan S. Szenasy
The Dizzying Heights of Hong Kong's Hyperdense Cityscape
An excerpt from the photographic book, "Vertical Horizon," pays tribute to the city's unique and often claustrophobic skyline.
How Are New Material Technologies Freeing up Designers?
Don't miss Metropolis in discussion with Justin Titucci of Evans & Paul about new material and fabrication technologies.
